Writer Quotes · Page 194

“The best kind of day is a writing day”

— Buffy Andrews

My chest of books divide amongst my friends--

— John Keats

An honest book is almost as good as a friend.

— Robert Charles Wilson

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

— Anita Brookner

In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.

— Jerry Spinelli

“Real-life duties eat valuable writing time.”

— Rayne Hall

“Fact is just fiction with different storytellers”

— Abby Slovin

What I don't write is as important as what I write.

— Jamaica Kincaid

I feel like a lot of the writing you hear is me grabbing experiences from other people.

— Ruel

“All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“Reading entails empathy, a sort of “trying on” of being another person for a while.”

— Tat Wood

“If you live with dogs, you'll never run out of things to write about.”

— Sharon Delarose

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

— Monique Wittig

I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

— Jeannette Walls

I'm not the sort of writer who can plan out things. Mostly I have no idea where I'm going.

— Chang-Rae Lee

“clearly she’d read too many shifter romances lately.”

— Megan Erickson

I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip.…

— Paul Theroux

“Life has its own chapters and no chapter stays for ever. Move on and enjoy the wonders and face the sorrows of…

— Vishnu Kanchan

“I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.”

— Felisberto Hernandez

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found…

— B. J. Novak

“My bookcase is all yours." I walked to the door. "I've just decided that those are my favorite five words in the…

— Kasie West

But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.

— Charles Clarke

I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of…

— Cary Fukunaga

I've had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of…

— Amy Bloom

“Perhaps this is simply the way it is with writers. It's when they don't see you that you matter. Because then you…

— Alice Walker

“So you can't please all the people all the time. All you can do is what pleases you, and hope that it…

— Clive Barker

“When people really are writers, they write. Artists draw. Golfers golf. Fish swim. Can’t keep them from it; it’s who they are.…

— David Brisbin

It really helped to have someone whose taste I really trusted who I knew was really smart and a really good writer.…

— Kumail Nanjiani

“My attic study is full of books, around a thousand of them, of which I might have read a half, the others…

— Richard Gwyn

Get a notebook, my young folks, a journal that will last through all time, and maybe the angels may quote from it…

— Spencer W. Kimball

I hear people say they're going to write. I ask, when? They give me vague statements. Indefinite plans get dubious results. When…

— Natalie Goldberg

Clifford paints true-to-life characters with the same gritty touch as the best of Dennis Lehane. Straightforward and edgy, Lamentation gnaws with nail-biting…

— Robert Dugoni

“I am a writer, I write what I feel and what like.”

— Euginia Herlihy

Let us now celebrate the literary allusion.

— Sherman Alexie

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

— V. S. Naipaul

The real bombs are my books, not me.

— Carlos Fuentes

“If you love to read, read more”- Ayah”

— Ayah

I can't write about your pain; I only know my own.

— Shelby Lynne

I think my writing has become "cleaner."

— Jodi Picoult

“My soul speaks. So I write!”

— Chinonye J. Chidolue